Kazuyoshi Funaki
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Kazuyoshi Funaki is a Japanese ski jumper best known for winning multiple gold medals and becoming a national hero at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kazuyoshi Funaki canonical | 7 |
| Kazuyoshi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T295153 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kazuyoshi Funaki Context triple: [1998 Winter Olympics, notableAthlete, Kazuyoshi Funaki]
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A.
Akinobu Okada
Akinobu Okada is a former Japanese professional baseball infielder and manager best known for his long association with Nippon Professional Baseball and leadership roles with the Hanshin Tigers.
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B.
Daisuke Kato
Daisuke Kato is a former Japanese professional baseball player best known for his time with the Orix Buffaloes in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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C.
Kosuke Imai
Kosuke Imai is a political scientist and statistician known for his contributions to causal inference, experimental design, and statistical methods in the social sciences.
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D.
Nobutaka Machimura
Nobutaka Machimura was a prominent Japanese Liberal Democratic Party politician who held key cabinet posts, including Minister for Foreign Affairs and Chief Cabinet Secretary, and served as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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E.
Hayato Ikeda
Hayato Ikeda was a Japanese prime minister known for his “income-doubling plan” and for overseeing rapid economic growth and modernization in postwar Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kazuyoshi Funaki Target entity description: Kazuyoshi Funaki is a Japanese ski jumper best known for winning multiple gold medals and becoming a national hero at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
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A.
Akinobu Okada
Akinobu Okada is a former Japanese professional baseball infielder and manager best known for his long association with Nippon Professional Baseball and leadership roles with the Hanshin Tigers.
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B.
Daisuke Kato
Daisuke Kato is a former Japanese professional baseball player best known for his time with the Orix Buffaloes in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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C.
Kosuke Imai
Kosuke Imai is a political scientist and statistician known for his contributions to causal inference, experimental design, and statistical methods in the social sciences.
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D.
Nobutaka Machimura
Nobutaka Machimura was a prominent Japanese Liberal Democratic Party politician who held key cabinet posts, including Minister for Foreign Affairs and Chief Cabinet Secretary, and served as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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E.
Hayato Ikeda
Hayato Ikeda was a Japanese prime minister known for his “income-doubling plan” and for overseeing rapid economic growth and modernization in postwar Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic athlete
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human ⓘ ski jumper ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ |
| competedAt |
Nagano
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surface form:
Nagano, Japan
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| competedInDiscipline |
large hill ski jumping
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normal hill ski jumping ⓘ team ski jumping ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Asia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| eventSpecialty | Olympic ski jumping events ⓘ |
| familyName | Funaki ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Kazuyoshi Funaki
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Kazuyoshi
|
| hasAchievement |
World Cup victories in ski jumping
ⓘ
multiple Olympic medals in ski jumping ⓘ |
| hasHonor | status as national sports hero in Japan ⓘ |
| hasNotability | prominent Japanese ski jumper of the late 1990s ⓘ |
| hasRole | Olympic representative for Japan in ski jumping ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
becoming a national hero in Japan at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics
ⓘ
winning multiple gold medals at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | Japanese sports media coverage ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Japanese national ski jumping team ⓘ |
| name | Kazuyoshi Funaki self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 船木和喜 ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics ski jumping competitions ⓘ |
| occupation | ski jumper ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1994 Winter Olympics
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1998 Winter Olympics ⓘ 2002 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan ⓘ |
| representedCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| sport | ski jumping ⓘ |
| sportCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| typeOfAthlete | winter sports athlete ⓘ |
| wonMedal |
Olympic bronze medal
ⓘ
Olympic gold medal ⓘ Olympic silver medal ⓘ World Cup event ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Kazuyoshi Funaki Description of subject: Kazuyoshi Funaki is a Japanese ski jumper best known for winning multiple gold medals and becoming a national hero at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kazuyoshi